Unless you know people up here then your best bet is look for temporary housing for a few weeks while you drive around and look for places via craigslist/similar. Areas are notorious for having very high housing prices for crappy places that just have a fresh coat of paint on them, so looking on internet only without site visits is not a great option. I spent one month looking for a place in Mountain View and found that renting a condo from an owner turned out to be better all around than trying to find a suitable apartment complex.
Another problem is that decent housing is super competitive here, a reasonable rental purchase will get replies almost immediately, so owners will prefer to deal with local people than those farther away to close the deal.
Thanks for the info! I was thinking of doing a 15-30 day Couch-surfing venture to scope out the lay-of-the-land. I just want to get the best sense of what I will be walking into before I actually get there. Any tips or tidbits will be duly noted!
I reply to emails on a different monitor. On a different subject, I try to write code in a way that I can make best use of the debugger in an effort to compile less frequently. For example, comment code out by doing things like U8 gate_var = 0; if (gate_var) { };, as opposed to #ifdef GATE_VAR//#endif. I can change the value of gate_var while stepping through with the debugger.
It is good that this is getting some publicity but the whole protest is misdirected without a clear message or demands. I would love to see more of the '99%' take a relatively smaller step forward and participate in elections. With so many close races, even a few unified percent, of the '99%', can hold a lot of political clout thereby making a stronger statement. As a bonus, you can take work off to vote and you don't have to get arrested!
This looks really cool, I like the layout. I have been working on something similar, (http://mobilethread.com), which lets you setup/join anonymous chat threads and is designed to run in a smartphone web browser. I got around the emails issue by creating a unique URL for each thread which you can then email/SMS/embed in a QR code. When joining, a user automatically gets a random name or they can set their own. Finally, anything you post gets removed after four hours, inactive threads get removed after a week. I decided against Captcha but did implement thread creation/message flood limits.
